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Nearly a year will have soon passed since alternative broadband operator All Points Fibre Networks<\/a> (APFN), which is backed by Fern Trading, announced that they’d completed the consolidation of their three own-built full fibre networks (here<\/a>) – Giganet, Jurassic Fibre and Swish Fibre. But bizarrely it’s still not possible for new customers to sign-up in areas where the network is present.<\/p>\n

In case anybody has forgotten, the three gigabit-speed altnets were all ultimately consolidated under the control of APFN’s wholesale platform, while their associated (existing) retail customers ended up being sent to UK ISP Cuckoo<\/a>, which forms part of the same group (the same group also own another ISP called Brillband). Take note that APFN also supplies wholesale access via various other network operators too (off-net) via their Aquila platform.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> According to Fern Trading’s annual report to June 2025 (here<\/a>), APFN’s own fibre network assets (on-net) cover “approximately 500,000 properties in the south and southwest of England and Yorkshire<\/em>“. But a March 2025 estimate by Thinkbroadband<\/a> put them at closer to 299,400 premises – Read for Service (here<\/a>).<\/div>\n

However, despite Fern Trading having sunk hundreds of millions of pounds into building their own FTTP<\/a> broadband network, APFN have continued to prevent new customers from actually being able to sign-up to it and this can create some awkward problems. Not to mention the negative impact upon revenue generation from leaving a built asset like this to languish.<\/p>\n

Take, for example, the situation in the Dorset town of Ferndown<\/strong>, where a fair portion of the area was originally covered by FTTP<\/a> from Giganet a few years ago (now part of APFN). Some other operators, such as Trooli<\/a>, Openreach<\/a> and Virgin Media<\/a> (inc. nexfibre<\/a>), have since built their own full fibre to parts of this town, but there are still a fair few areas where only APFN’s fibre network is present.<\/p>\n

Over the past year we’ve heard complaints from a number of people who have been looking to move into these sorts of areas and get FTTP<\/a> over APFN’s network, only to then be left confused by the situation. The example below is just one of several such complaints that have come our way over the past 1-2 years, which illustrates the problem.<\/p>\n

Henry, a future resident of Ferndown, told ISPreview:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The current owners [of the house we’re in the process of purchasing] have an FTTP service with Cuckoo<\/a> provided via telegraph pole, the road is a very short private access gravel drive. From enquiries, we understand the existing owners had this provided by Giganet which was then taken over by Cuckoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I contacted Cuckoo to see what was involved in taking over the FTTP supply and was told a flat no, we cannot supply that address. When I told them they were supplying someone right now there was some confusion (the normal caveats of myself not being the owner etc. applied to the conversation). I informed them that the existing customers were ex-Giganet and the assistant said something about pausing any new services to ex-Giganet customers.<\/p>\n

You can imagine the frustration that has caused since as things stand we will be unable to receive FTTP broadband for the foreseeable, only FTTC<\/a> [via Openreach<\/a>]. Not only frustration but utter bewilderment, here is a company with a functioning service seemingly deliberately retiring it despite the fact that they would still provide that service if the current owners stayed on – I had to read that back it is so bizarre.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We have reported on and raised these issues with APFN before, although thus far nobody has ever been able to clearly articulate a response as to why the network remains locked to new customers. The company also declined to comment on today’s article when we asked, which doesn\u2019t fill us with confidence for the future.<\/p>\n

Often times such delays can be down to the need to develop new ordering systems and processes post-consolidation. But even if that were the case (they’ve offered no such explanation), in those examples it’s usually still possible to sign-up over the phone (manually) and in this case there instead seems to be no desire from Cuckoo\/APFN to even entertain new customers. It\u2019s a head scratcher.<\/p>\n

Back in May 2025 there was some talk about APFN possibly putting themselves or their network up for sale (here<\/a>), although Fern Trading responded at the time to say APFN \u201cis not for sale<\/em>\u201c and there’s been no new developments on that front since then. In any case, such talks would not be a reason to shelve commercialisation of the network, which might otherwise be able to help grow some much-needed revenues.<\/p>\n

Suffice to say that the situation around APFN\u2019s on-net fibre network remains no clearer than it was last spring and we\u2019re struggling to see the grander strategy.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 16th March 2026 @ 11:10am<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some sources have indicated that APFN are still working to try and bring the consolidated network back into service for new customers, which we’re hearing could happen before the end of June 2026 (possibly sooner). But this is considered to be highly tentative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nearly a year will have soon passed since alternative broadband operator All Points Fibre Networks (APFN), which is backed by Fern Trading, announced that they’d completed the consolidation of their three own-built full fibre networks (here) – Giganet, Jurassic Fibre and Swish Fibre. 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